All Blog Posts Tagged 'attack' (6)

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The GOP won’t give up on Benghazi for the simple reason that any and everything no matter how big, small, trivial, or downright nutty, that even remotely allows it to slur President Obama it will race to the stars with. Benghazi is not simply the latest in the hit plan against Obama but the longest standing and most relentless of the GOP’s ploys. The GOP sniffed administration blood on this from virtually the moment the first…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did the seemingly impossible. He turned from court mute to a hit man on President Obama. In an interview at Duquesne University Law School in April, Thomas snidely rapped Obama for being the darling of the “elites.” To Thomas that means liberals, progressives, intellectuals, and the supposedly hopelessly liberal media. Thomas punctuated his slam of Obama by plopping the race…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The GOP hit on UN Ambassador Susan Rice for the murderous Benghazi attack is not about her alleged bungling, untruthfulness, or lack of accomplishment. It’s yet another GOP ploy to weaken, besmirch, and taint President Obama. Change the name from Rice to Attorney General Eric Holder and it’s a virtual rerun of four years ago. Days after Obama’s 2008 election victory, he publicly announced that he planned to tap Holder for the…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

It’s clear from the series of emails that the White House was informed that the attack on the American embassy in Libya may have been a planned, organized terrorist attack. President Obama’s critics jumped on this again supposedly as smoking gun proof that the White House engaged in a massive cover-up to keep the truth from the American people. But what was the truth? And what proof is there that Obama…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will hit President Obama during their foreign policy debate with the ancient political zinger, what did he know and when did he know it about Libya. The GOP’s attack line is that Obama botched the response to the terror attack on the American embassy in Libya in part to protect his claim that he destroyed Al-Qaeda, and in greater part to mask his alleged rudderless, muddled Middle East…

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Newark Mayor Cory Booker is a rock solid Democrat and a President Obama backer. But he inadvertently and almost certainly unintentionally raised a campaign problem for Obama. The problem is the danger to Obama of what many perceive as going negative in…